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Valuation Of The Family Home: Why Feminist Theory Supports The Exclusive Use Of Appraisers As Experts When The Wife Wants To Keep The Home, Marisa San Filippo
Valuation Of The Family Home: Why Feminist Theory Supports The Exclusive Use Of Appraisers As Experts When The Wife Wants To Keep The Home, Marisa San Filippo
University of San Francisco Law Review
This Comment explains the importance of valuing the family home in marital dissolution, introduces the feminist legal theory lens, and provides a statutory framework regarding the current use of experts in family home valuation. This Comment also discusses why the courts should limit expert testimony on the fair market value of the family home when the wife is trying to keep it to licensed California appraisers. A comparative analysis of the competency and conflicts of appraisers and real estate salespersons will support this conclusion. Lastly, this Comment identifies how potential overvaluation of the family home can negatively impact the wife's …
"Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves!" Why The Parental Rights Of Registered Domestic Partners Must Trump The Parental Rights Of Their Known Sperm Donors In California, Allison J. Stone
University of San Francisco Law Review
This Comment argues that California Family Code section 297.5 dictates that parental rights in both domestic partners who conceive a child through artificial insemination trump the parental rights of the known sperm donor, because heterosexual married couples have parental rights when a child is born during their marriage, even if one parent is not biologically related to the child.